Objects and Stories
Recording and Remembering Your Story
There are many ways in which to tell a story.
How you choose to tell a story might depend on a few things like:
Where you think your strengths lay - for example, if you don't like speaking in public, you might not choose storytelling!
You might also think about what would be the most appropriate way of telling your story for the audience you are writing for - for example, you might think that children under 14 might like an illustrated story, animation or cartoon...
Storytelling (
Oral)
Storytelling is an art in itself and telling a story is not just about reading from a book, but acting out the story to make it come to life... Good storytellers animate their stories using different voices, accents, volume, body actions and props. They also like to involve the audience, asking them questions and getting them to join in!
Recording using Video Equipment (Film)
Using new technologies, film and video is a very popular form of getting an audience interested in a story. Films can take a number of different formats like a documentary or blockbuster movie for example. Films today are very cleverly put together using audio, imagery, motion and special effects.
Recording using Audio Equipment (MP3 files, podcasting, audio CDs)
This might sound harder than you think, but you can use your mobile phone, a simple audio recorder or a microphone plugged into Microsoft Word to do this! Of course, you would need to prepare your story and practise a few times first!
Digital Stories
Digital stories mix images, photographs, text, short film clips and audio together to tell a story. Examples can be seen at www.myyorkshire.org
Writing the story
Sometime just writing it down the good old fashioned way is exactly the right way to tell a story - and who doesn't enjoy a good read from time to time?
Illustrating the story
Using images to bring a written or oral story to life is often good as it helps the audience to picture the story you are telling.
Drawings
Look at Beatrice Potter and how popular her drawings of Peter Rabbit have been and are today.. with children and adults of course! (See link to Peter Rabbit website below)
Photographs
Photographs are often used for documentary type articles and programs or autobiography - where the story is based on fact.
Performance
Ever been to see a play? Pantomime or Opera? Do you think you could put together your own to tell your story?
Storyboarding or Cartoon
Who remembers Dandy and Beano? Poplular comic books that started in the 1930s and are still printed today. More modern comics include the Simpsons, Spiderman, Bratz, X Men, Disney Princess, Disney High School Musical and Hannah Montana.
Comics use a mix of illustrations and short text to tell a story in a particular sequence.
Animation
By linking a series of images together, you can make photographs, drawings, objects and clay models, for example, appear as if they are moving.
Did you know, the first animation ever made was in Leeds by a man called Louis Le Prince?
Louis used a special type of photographic film to record the images. Individual pictures (frames) were taken quickly, one after the other and when the images were projected the people, animals and vehicles appeared to be moving. This is called a 'motion picture'.
Find out more about animation on My Learning here.
Learning article provided by:
Leeds Museum Discovery Centre |
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